STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — An Elm Park man who was the victim in a racially charged assault case in 2007 has been arrested on burglary charges, after police say they caught him breaking into a New Dorp Beach home and loading goods into a shopping cart.

Police say Skylar McCormack, 23, of Winant Street, entered a house on Waterside Street shortly after 4 a.m. Wednesday, lifting a window screen to get in. He took a flat-screen television, figurines and costume jewelry, police said.

McCormack, who is black, made headlines in October 2007, after, police alleged at the time, a group of white men attacked him after he either touched or jumped on a silver Cadillac belonging to one of the men as he ran down Wright Avenue.

The assault brought the Rev. Al Sharpton to Staten Island to denounce what he called a climate of escalating hate.

Police arrested two suspects, initially charging them with assault as a hate crime, but District Attorney Daniel Donovan’s office dropped the hate-crime counts, charging them instead with gang assault. The outcome of that case was not immediately available yesterday.

McCormack on Wednesday was charged with second-degree burglary and petit larceny.

He’s being held on $25,000 bail until his next court appearance, on Monday.